Top 100 Introvert Quotes

After hours of searching and compiling, here it is: the most comprehensive list of introvert quotes in the universe! Find famous introvert quotes, quotes about being alone, solitude quotes, and other inspiring introvert quotes all right here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! 😉

“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” ~ Audrey Hepburn

“You see things. You keep quiet about them and you understand. “ ~ The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I’m very picky with whom I give my energy to. I prefer to reserve my time, intensity and spirit exclusively to those who reflect sincerity.” ~ Dau Voire

“There is a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends because I’m too content by myself.” ~ Drew Barrymore

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” ~ William S. Boroughs

“I think a lot, but I don’t say much.” Anne Frank

“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.” ~ C. Bukowski

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.” Stephen Hawking

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~ Rollo May

“Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet. I know more than I say, think more than I speak and observe more than you know.” ~ Michaela Chung

“What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world.” ~Susan Cain

“I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.” ~Bob Newhart

“Let’s clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.” ~ Laurie Helgoe

“Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”~ Nikola Tesla

“The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.” Lana Del Rey

“Stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don’t let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don’t force yourself to seek breadth.” ~ Susan Cain

“Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.” ~ Laurie Helgoe

“Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I think if you’re known on the Internet, you’re probably an introvert.” ~ Felicia Day

“’Come out of your shell’ – that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go and some humans are just the same.” ~ Susan Cain

“I don’t have time for superficial friends, I suppose if you’re really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what’s the point? ~ Courtney Cox

“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.” ~ Marilynne Robinson

“[Introverts] listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror for small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.” ~ Susan Cain

“My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.” ~ Patricia Highsmith

“For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.” ~ Jonathan Rauch

“Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.” ~Charles Bukowski

“I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent; then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.” ~ bjork

“Loneliness is failed solitude.” Sherry Turkle

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. ~ Bertrand Russell

“Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you ‘too much’ in some ways and ‘not enough’ in others.” ~ Laurie Helgoe

“A wise man once said nothing.” ~ Proverb

“Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured…Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.”~ Susan Cain

“In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.” ~ Criss Jami

“When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.” ~ Mary Oliver

“Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.” ~ Al Gore

“Solitude matters and for some people it’s the air they breathe.” ~ Susan Cain

“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.” ~ Steve Wozniak

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. ~ Napoleon Hill

“Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.” ~ Liv Tyler

“I was never less alone than when by myself.” ~ Edward Gibbon

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ~ Franz Kafka

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ~ Plato

“As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.” ~ Laurie Helgoe

“Introverts dislike small talk, but we are fluent in the language of ideas and dreams.” ~ Michaela Chung

“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.” ~Yoko Ono

“Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.” ~ Susan Cain

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes” C.G. Jung

“Better to keep quiet and let people think you’re an idiot than speak up and confirm it.” ~ Rodney Dangerfield

“I restore myself when I’m alone.” Marilyn Monroe

“People say things to me like, ‘It’s really cool that you don’t go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.’ I appreciate that, but I’m kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature.” ~ Emma Watson

“I think I’m a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.” ~ Helen Hunt

“E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone. As far as I’m concerned, I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.” ~ Tom Hanks

“I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that’s a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn’t that interested in moving from place to place.” ~ Bell Hooks

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family.” ~ Susan Cain

“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.” ~ Cheryl Strayed

“You only know part of me. I am a universe full of secrets.” ~ Lupytha Hermin

“An introvert may feel asocial when pressured to go to a party that doesn’t interest her. But for her, the event does not promise meaningful interaction. In fact, she knows that the party will leave her feeling more alone and alienated.” ~ Laurie Helgoe

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.” ~Audrey Hepburn

“People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.” ~ Andy Warhol

“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me. They’re shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone…” ~ Steve Wozniak

“Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.” ~Helen Gurley Brown

“Sometimes I just shut down and don’t talk to anyone for days. It’s nothing personal.” ~ Sonya Teclai

“Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.” ~ Julia Quinn

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness.” ~ Anais Nin

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” ~ Anne Lamott

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ~ Aldous Huxley

“I’m indecisive because I see eight sides to everything.” ~ April Kepne

“Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.” ~ Rumi

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. ~ Mary Sarton

“What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it like a secret vice!” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” ~ Virginia Wolf, The Waves

“Every time we stomp down our introverted nature, we crush part of our soul in the process.” ~ Michaela Chung

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Thanks for reading my excessively long list of introvert quotes! I hope you found them helpful, inspiring, and/or entertaining in some way.

Did I miss any? What is your favorite introvert quote? Feel free to share below.

Not sure if this applies here, but it always gave me comfort as an introvert:
“The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought between the speaker & the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts no words could be suffered.”
~Emerson
AND
“I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the doorpost, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company.”
~ Emerson

Both from Self Reliance, which is just full of introvert-y goodness. Thanks for the website, it’s really helpful. God Bless

“Don’t judge me unfriendly. I’m not arrogant, i’m not shy, i’m not wierd. I just love quietness, because i need nurture my own world and it’s restore my energy for to be my original as introverted” ~ Abhiyanda 🙂

#13 Made me giggle. I also recently read this one:
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

oh I craved to be alone since I tried to look for people like me oh my I came to discover them I am not alone thanks God I feel safe inside my room from morning to evening if possible but these cares of the world roams me out martin Kampala uganda

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” Warsan Shire
“Kindly remove yourself from my personal space. Thanks.” ~ Gemma Correll

Most families are dogs. I come from a family of cats. I live on a hill and can spend days alone in my gardens. Then I feel lonely and have about 50 people over for a huge meal. Then they leave with my produce and my flowers. I am happy and they are happy.

“If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.” – Buddha

“All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone” – Blaise Pascal

“For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.” – Eda LeShan

“To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.” – Joseph Krutch, ‘The Desert Year’

“I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but to tell you the truth I only like it when, if I have a chance, to look deep into their hearts and minds” -Bela Lugosi

we weren’t going to.as you can see you’re the one that came to read about things that matter for us and waste your time to say something we don’t care about;i just want to know does it make you happy to hurt someone’s feeling oooh what a horrible way of living. salma from morocco sorry about my English.

I always like to quote Lao Tzu (although I am not sure whether or not those were his literal words at that time):
“Those who know don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can’t be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.”http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/943476-those-who-know-don-t-talk-those-who-talk-don-t-know

Michaela, you are awesome! All my life, people think I’m just the weird quiet kid. Even my family doesn’t understand why I would rather stay at home or make odd and crazy excuses rather than talk to people that I don’t know. I have a hard enough time asking my teacher a question, why would I willingly speak to a stranger? This really helped me understand that it is normal, and I’m not some anti-social weirdo that is never going to succeed in life. Thank you sooo much!!

Number 74:). Love this list. Whenever I start doubting myself that solitude is my gift to myself and I don’t owe people excuses as to why I enjoy and feel energized being alone, I search up quotes and feel renewed confidence in my choices to protect my alone time. Keep up the good work michael

I really love this list! I’m feeling desperate for solitude at the moment, real alone time you now? It’s been quite hard to get lately, but I try to remember to schedule some me time in each week so I can recharge. My hobbies are endurance sports like triathlon and cycling – I do most of my training alone but will suffer the small talk of a group ride when necessary! I’d be interested to know what percentage of long distance athletes were introverts like me 🙂

11. “Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet. I know more than I say, think more than I speak and observe more than you know.” ~ Michaela Chung

40. “[Introverts] listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror for small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.” ~ Susan Cain

I agree completely! Those are the best of the lot and describe me perfectly. These things are understood by us intuitively and need no explanation. If you get it, you understand. If you don’t get it, no amount of explanation would make you understand.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
-Aristotle

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung

“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”
-John Muir

“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I love all of these quotes, thank you Michela! I especially love number 40 by Susan Cain, but I have to say that I’m an introvert that has a hard time thinking before I speak. I find that the pace of spoken social interaction never leaves time for me to think properly before I speak. Quite often I try to be polite and contribute my thoughts to an extrovert conversation, only later to reflect and realize my inherent social awkwardness when I’m in a group of people numbering greater than two.

what a beautiful site! I love these quotes. I am the kind of introvert no one understands. When i am out in the real world i am bubbly and talkative and love people..then i am done. People laugh at me when i tell them i am introvert. I am a true introvert..my dream would be to be home away from every one…for weeks on end. I am the mother of 6 kids…yeah…what a contradiction…i am down to the last 2…so i fortunately get more time to me….My favorite days are the ones where i can drop them off..come home and have 7 blissful hours to myself. My little brain and soul are sooo happy. I can even remember as a child my favorite thing to do was to play in my attic bedroom all by myself…and my best friend would have to drag me to play outside…so glad to know i am not alone in this…all my best to you! xo

“Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man”…John Steinbeck

Thanks for the wonderful quotes…
I can reflect on this one:
“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.” ~Anais Nin

-There are some who lose who they really are when they try to fit in with the crowd… And is difficult to bring it back..

Love 96, fine example of the denial’s evident, to which I could add, They dont like your (introvert) opinions because they know you have seriously considered your words, perhaps even practised them, unlike themselves

Michaela I love this website. I just stumbled upon it. an introvert at heart I find so much comfort in these quotes. the lengths I have gone to find inner peace have been far and near. most people wouldn’t understand this an introvert does.it dawned on me just the other day that if you are an introvert you embrace it , you nurture it ,and it nurtures you.you seek hobbies and passions that will make you feel more at ease with yourself.not something to just pass the time like watching t.v. my favorite hobby and passion for me as an introvert is motorcycle riding,alone ! I wont think twice about jumping on my bmw motorcycle and riding 300 miles in a day.out in the country ofcourse.take care kyle roy

Thank you for this, Michaela. I have recognized that I am introverted for years, but not until now have I made several gut level revelations that will help me live a more meaningful life. Wish I could share them now, but all I want to do is wallow in this luscious knowledge and soak it to my core. Then maybe I can share. For now it just fundamentally changes my life!

I can’t believe I didn’t know about this blog earlier! These quotes are so relatable, thank you so much for sharing them! #2 rings especially true to me but it’s disheartening that not many people understand that. After five days of work, all I want to do during the weekend is have my alone time and catch up on my hobbies. So next to “why are you so quiet,” the question I dread the most is “What did you do during the weekend?” I would tell the truth and it’s so obvious that people think I have a boring life and have no friends when in fact, I like to have a small group of best friends whom I can truly be myself with.

18. “Let’s clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.” ~ Laurie Helgoe
21. “When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.”
33. “As a child I suppose I was not quite normal. My happiest times were when I was left alone in the house on a Saturday.” ~ Charles Bukowski
50. “In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.” ~ Criss Jami
51. “When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.” ~ Mary Oliver
74. “Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.” ~ Susan Cain

Thank you so very much for this – just found this today. What a blessing it has been.

After living nearly75nearly 75 years as a introvert. ..some parts happily some parts confused and unhappy I came up with a response to, as one of the previous posters put it, “the dreaded question” of “why are you so quiet?”
(which is kind of rude really.)
One could ask,”Why are you so loud? ” That’s a bit rude too, I suppose, but maybe an introvert could figure out how to say it politely!
I love the affirming quotes. Thank you for gathering up such a rich harvest and sharing them with all of us at this season of harvest and thanksgiving. I do feel awarm, gentle kindred spirit with each of you.

Being as an introvert person is so hard
Most of us are intelligent and we expand our quality in loneliness , we become more and more expert and we know it but we can not prove it
I know we do not need to prove it, but being a different person even though when you are the better one is so hard
We will have either a tough and nice live in solitude

I always cursed myself for being a introvert.The main reason behind my introvertism is stammering problem.
Due to this I got less interactive and got sunk in the ocean of introvertism and often spend time alone.
After reading this article, I got too much confidence and realized the power what a introvert can do.
Thank u all buddies

they really do speak to me,am the sort of person who would be seated in a group of people,but concetrating on my thoughts hahaha……..it’s like i drift to another universe,some of my friends say am annoying hahaha…….but i love it

I truly enjoyed these quotes. It’s only been 4 months since I’ve realized I was an introvert for the last 36 years. Reading these quotes made me stand up and raise my fists into the air without getting up off my feet.

“I’m indecisive because I see eight sides to everything.” ~ April Kepne

“What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it like a secret vice!” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I’m indecisive because I see eight sides to everything.” ~ April Kepne

“What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it like a secret vice!” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My favourite quotes from the list…….thanks anyway

Could relate to it totally.. Introverts are often named as “Arrogant people”
I am the only one who can fill ‘ my cup of happiness’
Crowd and too many people around makes me feel lost.
Though loved to be around my closed ones 🙂

this is interesting! thanks for these quotes: they make me feel on top of the world ‘cos I love being introverted. I’m an artist, and the greatest ideas come when I’m alone. It really feels great. Here’s one from me:
“In the inn of solitude and forethought lies the birthplace of the world’s greatest ideas.”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As soon as I opened the gate, as soon as I caught sight of the tall trees in the garden, I felt happy and rich. Outside was reality: streets and houses, people and institutions, libraries and lecture halls-but here inside was love; here lived the legend and the dream. And yet we lived in no way cut off from the outside world; in our thoughts and conversations we often lived in the midst of it, only on an entirely different plane. We were not separated from the majority of men by a boundary but simply by another mode of vision. Our task was to represent an island in the world, a prototype perhaps, or at least a prospect of a different way of life. I, who had been isolated for so long, learned about the companionship which is possible between people who have tasted complete lonliness. I never again hankered after the tables of the fortunate and the feasts of the blessed. Never again did envy or nostalgia overcome me when I witnessed the collective pleasures of others. And gradually I was initiated into the secret of those who wear the sign in their faces.
We who wore the sign might justly be considered “odd” by the world; yes, even crazy, and dangerous. We were aware or in the process of becoming aware and our striving was directed towards achieving a more and more complete state of awareness while the striving of others was a quest aimed at binding their opinions, ideals, duties, their lives and fortunes more and more closely to those of the herd. There, too, was striving, there, too, were power and greatness. But whereas we, who were marked believed that we represented the will of Nature to something new, to the individualism of the future, the others sought to perpetuate the status quo. Humanity-which they loved as we did-was for them something complete that must be maintained and protected. For us, humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down.
-Herman Hesse

“the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

First of all I want to say great blog! I had a quick question that
I’d like to ask if you do not mind. I was interested to find out
how you center yourself and clear your head before writing.
I have had trouble clearing my thoughts in getting my thoughts out
there. I do enjoy writing but it just seems like
the first 10 to 15 minutes tend to be lost just trying to figure
out how to begin. Any ideas or hints? Thank you!

The minds eye tends to see better things since there is rarely a dull moment in my head.

Thank you for creating this site. I have recently started learning in better detail about introverts. I’m not sure how far intovthe innie realm I go but I can relate to some of the traits. Ever since I have been reading up on this topic I have been feeling better and am happy to see others having similar traits.